Perhaps the solution is to select some new plants to welcome the moths into your realm. They can then fit your mental narrative as part of the creatures that benefit from your god complex rather than having to fill a forced role as the bad guys. I suspect the problem isn't the invasion of three ravenous moths but more of the lack of feeling in control. Channelling this into a more positive action would be better for all concerned and stop you focusing on perceived negatives. In the long run it would be better to work on challanging your perception though before you start resenting things like the weather and the seasons, or caging wild animals to force them to submit to your benefactions.
My neighbour feeds the squirrels and gets a lot of enjoyment out of it. They have all the food they could ever need but still hop the fence and strip the cobnuts from my tree. The nuthatch who visits my garden is deprived of the food by this invading squirrel. The squirrel family does well due to the provided banquet and the young disperse into the wider area depriving more native species of natural food. The squirrels damage trees, prey on young birds and reduce seed dispersal of native plants. But my neighbour enjoyed feeding them. More people find that feeding this expanding population of half tame squirrels in the local area is enjoyable, especially since there seem to be a suspicious lack of birds this year, so more people buy food for them. Meanwhile the farmer is experiencing a higher demand for squirrel food and decides to rip out that pesky hedgerow and a bit more of that woodland to make room for more squirrel food plants. He makes sure to spray them all liberally with chemicals to ensure the highest yeald possible. Native bird and insect numbers drop near the farm and of course the farmer culls any squirrels that try and steal his squirrel food crop. Those aren't local squirrels though and were probably nasty bullies so it's ok right? My point is that whatever you do in your garden has an impact on the wider world no matter how carefully you plan it or whatever internal narrative you try to impose on it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
> In the long run it would be better to work on challanging your perception > though before you start resenting things like the weather and the seasons, > or caging wild animals to force them to submit to your benefactions.
Don't make utterly made up imaginary accusations about innocents like I.
The squirrels used to do that when they were hungry. My squirrels don't do that anymore. My neighbours tell me this and they are happy. They don't even have enough appetite to eat the high nutrition flapjack bits I throw them. They love to eat the sunflower heads I cut down and throw them after flowers wither, which are full of seeds full of protein, and also vitamins because they eat the flower part along with the seeds.
The squirrels used to do that when they were hungry. My squirrels don't do that anymore.
Squirrels will strip a cobnut tree of every nut even without eating a single one. They cache these away for lean times. Not understanding basic things like this is the problem that people are trying to make you see and why it is useful to challenge your perceptions.
A lot of people are turning to their gardens for a sense of control to help cope with climate anxiety or the changes to society brought about by Covid. It's not a bad thing as long as you channel it in the right way. Ask yourself why you need to treat wild animals as pets and fulfil their every need. Is this really the outcome you're seeking or are you would it be more helpful to you to understand the wider picture that your garden is part of? Rather than your garden being an oasis (suggesting the only good place within a desert) could you consider it as part of a patchwork of habitats that plays a role within a wider ecology?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Psuedo psycho analysis now. My uncle is a consultant psychiatrist and he says what you say is "hocum."
I have been helping my local habitat all my life. I used to belong to a National Trust conservation group and used to go around cleaning up streams and all that. Just a National Trust member for buying things and getting newsletters now.
My neighbours and I are all happy. My squirrels don't do that, but they eat cherries off my cherry tree and they are welcome to it.
Flapjack and red wine, the perfect food for wild animals, I hope you don’t get any birds nesting in your garden because squirrels will strip the nest of baby birds that’s if they haven’t already taken the eggs.
What do you think bats live on?
I have a sneaking feeling these posts are a wind up, no one is that naive surely.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
My garden is a real world habitat, but not in the wild world. Just like a garden is a real world thing without being a wild forest or jungle. I know how it is in the real world.
Looking at your responses on the first page of this thread suggests otherwise. You didn't know much about bees' lifecycle for example
@Lyn - you might be right there, and we're all wasting our time with this. I know I am, so I'm off to have my walk and listen to Popmaster Something is clearly very wrong with a lot of the posts on this, and other, threads though.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Psuedo psycho analysis now. My uncle is a consultant psychiatrist and he says what you say is "hocum."
Can't he spell Hokum? Still he did well to analyse all that within a few minutes. Sat on your lap was he? My nan's best friend's cousin's aunt is a squirrellologist and she agrees that 'your' squirrels are little saints that don't conform to natural behaviour and I should apologise for my naivety.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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> though before you start resenting things like the weather and the seasons,
> or caging wild animals to force them to submit to your benefactions.
Don't make utterly made up imaginary accusations about innocents like I.
The squirrels used to do that when they were hungry. My squirrels don't do that anymore. My neighbours tell me this and they are happy. They don't even have enough appetite to eat the high nutrition flapjack bits I throw them. They love to eat the sunflower heads I cut down and throw them after flowers wither, which are full of seeds full of protein, and also vitamins because they eat the flower part along with the seeds.
I have been helping my local habitat all my life. I used to belong to a National Trust conservation group and used to go around cleaning up streams and all that. Just a National Trust member for buying things and getting newsletters now.
My neighbours and I are all happy. My squirrels don't do that, but they eat cherries off my cherry tree and they are welcome to it.
Got to work.
What do you think bats live on?
I have a sneaking feeling these posts are a wind up, no one is that naive surely.
@Lyn - you might be right there, and we're all wasting our time with this. I know I am, so I'm off to have my walk and listen to Popmaster
Something is clearly very wrong with a lot of the posts on this, and other, threads though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...